As part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Office of Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research (IC&SR), IIT Madras, DRDO Industry Academia – Ramanujan Centre of Excellence (DIA-RCoE), IIT Madras is organizing a one-day workshop in collaboration with Electrical Engineering Department on “Next Generation Laser Systems” on 2nd May, 2023 at IIT Madras.
This workshop is designed to get eminent professors from across the country to one point – at IIT Madras. This gives a great opportunity to the research scholars, scientists, next generation faculty and industry captains, to know about this disruptive technology which is going to be a game changer in defence technology. Considering the domination of drones in the sky and in the sea, lasers are being explored for weapon, communication and many more applications. In order to achieve Aatmanirbhar Bharat in this domain, the workshop will lay a clear approach for futuristic development after brainstorming and panel discussion among the eminent professors, industry experts, scientists and researchers for development of technology and systems for our defence services.
Dr.G.Satheesh Reddy, Scientific Adviser to Raksha Manthri is the Chief Guest and to deliver Inaugural address and Prof.Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras will deliver Golden Jubliee Address. Shir.Haribabu Srivastava, Director General (Technology Management), DRDO to deliver key note address. Eminent Professors from various IITs across the country are participating and delivering talks on Laser technology. They are from IIT Mandi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Mumbai, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IISc Bengaluru, and IIT Madras. Other experts from Industry and Research Institutions are also delivering valuable talks in this domain. They are from SFO Technology, BEL, DRDO – CHESS Hyderabad, NPOL Kochi and CSIR – CGCRI, Kolkata.